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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 3
8 Chipset ........................................................................................................ 25
8.1 Intel 7500 I/O Hub (IOH) .............................................................................. 25
8.2 IOH QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) ................................................................... 25
8.3 PCI EXPRESS GENERATION 2 .......................................................................... 25
8.4 Direct Media Interface (DMI) ......................................................................... 25
8.5 Intel I/O Controller Hub 10 (ICH10) ................................................................. 25
8.6 PCI Express Mezzanine Connectors .................................................................. 26
9 BIOS ............................................................................................................ 27
9.1 Overview ................................................................................................ 27
9.2 Supported ACPI States ................................................................................. 27
10 Embedded Gigabit Ethernet Controllers on Motherboard (LOM) ...................................... 28
11 I/O Mezzanine Card Options ................................................................................ 29
11.1 Overview ................................................................................................ 29
11.2 Options .................................................................................................. 29
12 Storage ........................................................................................................ 30
12.1 Drives .................................................................................................... 30
12.2 Hard Disk Drive Carriers ............................................................................... 30
12.3 Empty Drive Bays ....................................................................................... 30
12.4 Diskless Configuration Support ....................................................................... 30
12.5 RAID Configurations .................................................................................... 31
12.6 Storage Controllers .................................................................................... 31
12.6.1 SATA Repeater .................................................................................... 31
12.6.2 PERC6/i ............................................................................................ 32
12.6.3 PERC H200 ......................................................................................... 32
12.6.4 PERC H700 ......................................................................................... 32
12.7 LED Indicators .......................................................................................... 32
12.8 Optical Drives ........................................................................................... 32
13 Video (PCI Video) ............................................................................................ 33
14 Rack Information ............................................................................................. 34
15 Operating Systems ........................................................................................... 35
16 Virtualization ................................................................................................. 36
16.1 Overview ................................................................................................ 36
16.2 Advanced Infrastructure Manager by Scalent ...................................................... 36
16.3 Vizioncore ............................................................................................... 37
17 Systems Management ........................................................................................ 38
17.1 Overview ................................................................................................ 38
17.2 Server Management .................................................................................... 38
17.3 Embedded Server Management ...................................................................... 39
17.4 Lifecycle Controller and Unified Server Configurator ............................................ 39
17.5 The iDRAC6 Enterprise ................................................................................ 40
17.6 Chassis Management Controller (CMC) .............................................................. 41
18 Peripherals .................................................................................................... 42
18.1 USB peripherals ......................................................................................... 42
18.2 External Storage ........................................................................................ 42
Tables
Table 1. Product Comparisons ................................................................................. 6
Table 2. Product Features .................................................................................... 10
Table 3. Operating and Storage Conditions ................................................................ 15
Table 4. Typical Configuration Used in Testing ........................................................... 16